Late December generally qualifies as the holiday season, but that’s not the only thing in the air. Unfortunately, one of the other things in the air is influenza; yes, we are indeed in the middle of the 2024-25 flu season.

Higher-ups in the state quietly ordered over 6,500 employees to stop promoting vaccines against COVID and the flu

A group of high-level managers at the Louisiana Department of Health walked into a Nov. 14 meeting in Baton Rouge expecting to talk about outreach and community events. Instead, they were told by an assistant secretary in the department and another official that department leadership had a new policy: Advertising or otherwise promoting the COVID,

The Louisiana Department of Health, which the Surgeon General partly oversees, says they are shifting how they promote seasonal vaccines for things like the flu and COVID. Instead

City Council president Helena Moreno on Saturday (Dec. 21) blasted a reported ban against Louisiana public health workers promoting vaccines and pledged support for the city health department’s efforts to combat misinformation and political interference in health science.

Louisiana public health officials are no longer permitted to promote vaccines, including those against illnesses such as COVID-19 and the flu, to members of the public in a new policy that was covertly implemented in the state.